Did you hear about this? The Eagles and Bengals went into overtime yesterday and, since a quarter went by without either team scoring, the game ended in a tie. But Donovan McNabb didn’t know that a tie would happen. He said he wasn’t aware of that rule. He thought the game just keeps going until someone scores. But of course that only applies to playoff games.

Now I despise the Eagles and Donovan McNabb. But my bias aside, isn’t this pretty bad that a qb in the NFL didn’t know this rule? This is the way it’s always been since overtime began around 1974 or 1975. And the last tie was in 2002, between the Steelers and Falcons. Donovan has even been playing in the NFL since 1999 or 2000, well before that last tie! The fact that a couch potato football spectator like me and many others know that there is only one overtime quarter played for regular season games, and a multi million dollar paid NFL star doesn’t just seems really pathetic to me.

This is a funny paragraph from a story about this:

“What did Donovan think that “T” section in the standings was next to the “W” and “L”? Was he confused when he had to run a hurry up offense with two minutes left? And in 2002, when his team played the 9-6-1 Falcons in the playoffs, did McNabb think those numbers represented the Atlanta area code?”

Yeah really! Duh Donovan!